Casting painter

Gießen Painter's Name Vase.

Casting painter is the notname a mittelkorinthisch - schwarzfigurigen vases painter, which is about 600 v until after the 575th Was active.

The Gießen painter is named after his name vase in the Archaeological Collection of the University of Gießen (exhibited in the Wallenfels'schen House of the Upper Hessian Museum in Gießen ), a skyphos with swans in the middle and a siren , a sphinx and a panther on the outside are seen. The second Skyphos attributed to him is in the British Museum in London . Birds can be seen in the middle, and a siren, a griffin , a panther, a lion and a swan are depicted on the outside .

His style is considered demanding and is compared to that of the painter of Corinth MP 6 , although he is considered more original. The avoidance of symmetry in his pictures is characteristic of the Gießen painter .

literature

Darrell A. Amyx : Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period . University of California Press, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-03166-0 , p. 185; 382.

Remarks

↑ Inventory number 1958.07-21.1 .

personal data
SURNAME	Casting painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Giessen painter; Pour Painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Corinthian vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC Chr.

[1] Inventory number 1958.07-21.1 .